Sometimes addiction to social networking and mobile technologies becomes a dangerous illness, which shows itself in mysterious ways. It is hard to predict exact consequences, but the facts are quite negatively impressive.

I like Scoblizer or Robert Scoble a lot for interesting interpretations of nowadays media tendencies. But his real-time baby birth ceremony was something I can not appreciate nor logicaly neither spiritualy. He continuously transmitted various facts from the birth process of his child. Try to feel his emotions of a “real father”:

1. At first he wrote an email to the members of the family and to friends, calling to watch Twitter updates.

2. Then he checked in on Google Latitude, Gowalla, and FourSquare “so that people would know we were at the hospital.”

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A very simple story happened to me. But I have thought, I had to present it in this blog. You’ll learn how some people imagine SEO and how do they sell their products. Sometimes you can feel like a fellow of the stone age. And Lithuania is not an exception.

1. My hobby is video and audio technologies and I belong to a community called “Elektrik Sketches”. And I have a mailbox associated with this brand name.

2. Yesterday I got an email (spam) to my Elektrik Sketches box directly oriented for video pros. It was in Lithuanian, but I will translate it in English. I tried to preserve style of language and punctuation.  The text of the message was:

“Good afternoon,

we can offer new lamps for video camcorders for professional work, for good quality of video, for shooting in bad conditions. We want to offer new lamps BESCOR-PRO with autonomic batteries.

Versions of power 35w, 50w and 100w
Are you interested?

Sincerely
Vaizdo technika
Tel. 8645 33998″

And there was a photo attached:

3. How do you like the photo?

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1. Our common life (not in electronic space) ir passing by insensibly.

2. Our life on internet is just passing by.

3. What am I talking about? The question is about archiving of online content. Do you save constantly your comments, your tweets, your wall’s posts, your blog’s posts which you write unnumebered times every day? What about uploaded photos, audio and video files?

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Google announced Google Data Liberation Front together with a new website about a week ago. The point of the new programme is freedom to act with your personal data stored in Google applications. You may became incognito for Google from now on grabbing out all your data recorded in AdWords, Blog, GMail etc. Can we find something interesting behind this nice – from the first glance – twist made by Google?

1. The idea seems very humane. The data becomes liberated and owner is free to do with it whatever he wants.

2. But there is another question, which is incomparably more important than the matter in itself: does liberated data mean, that it still remains personal? Ooops.

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“The Wall Street Journal” yesterday announced about U.S. government’s plans to suggest new rules for internet service providers (ISP) to treat all web traffic equally. These rules are based on limited consumers’ freedom using their computers and cellphones by ISPs, when watching videos, listening to music or participating  in other legal services that require bandwidth. There are Google, Youtube and other internet companies on one side and on the other there are internet providers like AT&T or Comcast.

The thing is, that ISPs can freely manipulate with different internet services and limit their accessability for their clients. The services become slower and do not satisfy the users. According to Federal Communications Commission web traffic must be treated equally without blocking or slowing it from selected sources.

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1. What to do if you are lack of fantasy making a brake through viral video?

2. There is always an alternative – creating parodies of popular videos.

3. The latest example is video in which danish woman is looking for the baby’s father (a controversial video created by danish tourism agency) asking him respond and to come to Denmark. The video recieved 800 000 clicks, since it was posted.

4. It became a hit in Youtube (now it is removed, but you can still watch it here).

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There are two oposite opinions about increasing popularity of your brand name in the internet having a .tel extension. Is it good for SEO or not? As always, we can not find the only answer. This post will try to summerize pluses and minuses of using a domain name of a .tel extension.

Advantages:

1. Many users of .tel service say, that these websites are found by Google after a few weeks of starting using them. Great advantage, but do not we have the same situation with common domains?

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We already talked about the importance of your social media activity. The things are more serious than one can imagine. Do you know, that police also watches Youtube videos and reads Twitter feeds? Sure, everybody heard about several cases and today we have a new one.

LA Times reports:  “Cyrus Yazdani, a 26-year-old San Jose State graduate, gained a near-cult following after a YouTube video was posted of him vandalizing a sign 20 feet above the busy 101 Freeway. “Buket,” the daredevil tagger who gained Internet notoriety for his brazen, daylight tagging of a sign over the 101 Freeway and vandalism of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus, was sentenced Thursday to three years and eight months in state prison.” Besides Yazdani will have to pay $117,196 in restitution.

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1. Do you have a friend or just know a guy, which paints interesting pictures? Sure, you do.

2. Do you have a few unused domain names? Of course, what a question!

3. Do you like collaborating with people and making various unexpected projects? Everybody likes.

4. Do you need a simple and free marketing (or just light promotion) campaign? If you are reading this post, I supose the answer must be “yes”.

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1. If you are involved in some way in social networking, you have to be very precise with your terms of service (TOS).

2. People are different and they see the same things in various courses. So, you must write with black on white, what are offering exactly and what do you services mean, if you want to avoid future misapprehensions with the users.

3. Please, update your TOS as frequently as it is needed, because the world and meaning of things change fast.

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